An Assembly Republican effort to pare down the state's administrative rules will continue this year. The push known last session as “Right the Rules” will go by the new name “Red Tape Review.” Administrative rules are the fine details of laws. They're written by specialists in state agencies at the...

Americans often pay tribute to service industry and other blue-collar workers by praising their physical stamina or dignity, or event their economic value. But according to author Mike Rose, we rarely celebrate the intellect of the American blue-collar worker. Rose, a critically acclaimed author and educator has been challenging that...

A group of corn producers in Wisconsin are filing a class action lawsuit against Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company that develops genetically modified seeds, for selling a seed that hadn't yet been approved in China, one of the U.S.'s biggest corn importers.

Transporation Secretary Mark Gottlieb announced on Tuesday that the state had rejected plans to double-deck a four-mile section of freeway in Milwaukee, and would instead pursue widening the corridor to four lanes.

Immigrant rights advocates in Wisconsin like Christine Neumann-Ortiz, the director of Voces de la Frontera, are confident the federal court ruling that blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration will be overturned on appeal.

Gov. Scott Walker was in Kenosha Tuesday for a jobs announcement, but he declined to meet with local elected officials to talk about the jobs they wanted to discuss: The thousands that would’ve been created by the Menominee Tribe’s proposed casino.

Local jails all across the country are being misused, often resulting in the poor and mentally ill languishing behind bars for disproportionate periods of time. That's according to a new report; one of its authors looks at how we got here, and how policymakers can correct the course of the...

Jails across the country are being misused, often resulting in the poor and mentally ill languishing behind bars for disproportionate periods of time, according to a new report from the Vera Institute of Justice . The report states there are more than 3,000 U.S. jails holding 731,000 people on any...

The brother of Dontre Hamilton says that a new state law requiring external investigations of police-involved deaths needs to be amended to prevent local district attorneys from deciding whether such shootings are justified.

Gov. Scott Walker announced major changes in his administration Monday, including the departure of Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, who will fill an open seat on the state's regulatory agency for utilities and telecommunications.